Author: Ikpeme Neto

The start of a new year often brings with it many predictions for how things will go in tech. Reading many of these encouraged me to consider what 2017 will bring for startups in Nigerian health tech. Macro-environment 2017 is undoubtedly set to be a tough year. What with Nigeria experiencing a recession and a […]

I love to read stories of entrepreneurs. A particular one I enjoy is that of Ryan Howard, founder of Practice fusion. It packs plenty of learning points and inspiration to get you through a tough day. Practice fusion is an American startup that offers free, cloud based EHR software for health care professionals. Its software […]

I was delighted to read recently that Safermom, a Nigerian health tech startup, was one of the winners of the inaugural internet.org innovation challenge. This win saw them receive a $50,000 grant. A tidy sum that’s anywhere from 17–20 million Naira, depending on what day you look at the exchange rate. These funds will undoubtedly […]

I recently tweeted about my frustration trying to find some African health care data. This feeling was exacerbated by the incredible ease with which I was able to find corresponding data from Europe and America. Ayo, a pharmacist friend suggested it could start with us. So i dug into our database to try and gain […]

The American health tech startup Theranos, one of the fabled unicorns, is disrupting the medical laboratory testing industry. Or at least that’s what it claims. In the last few months however, the wheels have started to come off, or should i say the hooves and horn? The Wall Street Journal in October of 2015 did […]

There are phenomenal things going on in the tech startup space currently in Nigeria. Most recently, Andela, a talent accelerator founded in Nigeria and the U.S raised a big round of funding from the Chan Zuckerberg initiative. There have been similar fundraising and huge milestone successes in fintech and other consumer tech startups. The Nigerian […]

Doctors are a scarce resource in Nigeria. Numbers for physician ratios in Nigeria from the WHO ( dated 2009, nobody seems to have reported any since) reveal a dismal physician ratio of 0.41 per 1000. The WHO recommends a ratio that is greater than one. Places like Britain have a ratio 2.8 per 1000 and […]

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